DAILY EVENING TRAVELLER, Boston, April 11, 1865  

* Pre assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Among the columns heads on the front page are: "The Press On the Surrender of General Lee" "Naval Operations On the James River" "The Blockade Rearmed" "By the President of the United States, A PROCLAMATION" signed in type: Abraham Lincoln, which relates to the blockaded Southern ports.
Inside includes: "The Siege of Mobile" "The Campaign In Virginia" "Events Prior to the Surrender" "The Fighting Near Farmville" "Lee Desirous of Disbanding his Army Long Ago" "The Great Rejoicing" and more.
Four pages, never bound no trimmed, large folio size, very nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.

Background: Published just two days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox and three days before Lincoln's assassination, the April 11, 1865 edition of Boston’s Daily Evening Traveller captures the Union’s rapid pivot from active wartime strategy to postwar enforcement through three notable pieces of naval coverage. The cornerstone of the issue is President Abraham Lincoln's official executive notice (Proclamation 126), which formally closed captured Southern ports—such as Richmond, Wilmington, and Charleston—under domestic revenue laws rather than relying on international blockade rules, while warning foreign powers that harboring Confederate commerce raiders would forfeit their own naval privileges in U.S. harbors. Complementing this text, the report titled "The Blockade Rearmed" details the recalibration of federal maritime enforcement along the coast, while "Naval Operations On the James River" reviews the critical role played by the Union Navy's North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during Ulysses S. Grant's siege of Petersburg and the capture of Richmond on April 3. Together, these front-page items document one of Lincoln’s final executive actions, signaling the definitive end of Confederate maritime commerce and the restoration of federal authority over American waters.